Apple patents camera view that adjusts based on your app and surroundings
This filing describes a method where a device uses context like the active app or user state to decide if and how to straighten camera images. It automatically applies perspective correction to make photos look natural or leaves them raw depending on the situation.
In the filing’s own words
In some implementations, a method includes: obtaining image data associated with a physical environment; obtaining first contextual information including at least one of first user information associated with a current state of a user of the computing system, first application information associated with a first application being executed by the computing system, and first environment information associated with a current state of the physical environment; selecting a first set of perspective correction operations based at least in part on the first contextual information; generating first corrected image data by performing the first set of perspective correction operations on the image data; and causing presentation of the first corrected image data.
What exactly they claim (claim 1)
1. A method comprising: at a computing system including non-transitory memory and one or more processors, wherein the computing system is communicatively coupled to a display device and one or more image sensors via a communication interface: obtaining, via the one or more image sensors, image data associated with a physical environment; obtaining first contextual information including at least one of first user information associated with a current state of a user of the computing system, first application information associated with a first application being executed by the computing system, and first environment information associated with a current state of the physical environment; determining whether to perform perspective correction operations based at least in part on the first contextual information; in response to determining to perform the perspective correction operations: generating first corrected image data by performing a first set of perspective correction operations on the image data; and causing, via the display device, presentation of the first corrected image data; and in response to determining not to perform the perspective operations: generating, based on the image data, first uncorrected image data without performing perspective correction operations; and causing, via the display device, presentation of the first uncorrected image data.
Facts
- Company
- Apple (Apple Inc.)
- Official title
- Context-Based Selection of Perspective Correction Operations
- Publication number
- US20260320743A1
- Application number
- 19689296
- Filed
- May 27, 2026
- Published
- Oct 15, 2026
- Inventors
- 6
- Claims
- 20
Classified under
G06T 5/00 Physics & computingG06T 5/50 Physics & computingG06T 7/248 Physics & computingMore from Apple in Cameras & imaging
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Summaries are simplified from the filing’s own abstract and first claim. A patent filing is not a product announcement.
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